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Mr. Smith is 63 years old with Alzheimer's disease. He has an order for a feeding tube because he refuses to eat and is becoming malnourished. Which of the following feeding tubes would be a good choice?
 a. Nasogastric b. Nasoduodenal
  c. Gastrostomy d. Transnasal

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When two amino acids are chemically joined together, the resulting structure is called a
 a. dipeptide. b. diglyceride.
  c. polypeptide. d. disaccharide.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a


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Reply #2 on: Aug 21, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Aug 21, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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